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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational News from Cather …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… , as well as publication centenaries of A Lost Lady and April Twilights and Other Poems . Willa Cather’s prolific writing career and …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • … half of her childhood in Red Cloud, she returned often to visit family and friends. She once wrote, "I always return … our website, and the links below, or contact Nick Powers, Visitor Services Coordinator, at npowers@willacather.org . …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. Just as gripping are her portrayal of obstacles such … the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial in Red Cloud, one of her first efforts was to bring Life magazine to Webster County …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?" —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, …
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The Potter Family
… the Red Cloud sawmill south of the Webster Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first … they still came once or twice a year after we came there in about 1875 but were always friendly. . . . After my father … power. The dam is strongly constructed upon a rock foundation, as lasting as the rock of Gibraltar. The mill is …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … Willa Cather: A Literary Life had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive restoration in over fifty years. This project is made possible through a Save …
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